I have never done this with Yiddish, but with Greek and English where the
issues are similar:

1. From Tools options general - set Confirm conversion on open. When you
open add data file to the merge document - choose the OLE DB database
option. This works for Word 2003 and I am pretty sure that the same option
was available in Word 2000.
2. Change any \*mergeformat switch on the mergefield to a \*charformat
switch or add a \charformat switch if there is no \*mergeformat switch:
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm
3. Set the language of the field to Yiddish.

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wcsdropout wrote:
I have Windows XP with Microsoft Office 2000 Professional. I installed
Hebrew language support and am using a Yiddish keyboard layout. I
have an Excel
spreadsheet with vocabulary words -- 1 column English and 1 Yiddish,
and am trying to print out the Yiddish Words to Microsoft Word
"labels" using Mail Merge. However, whenever I try to merge them, I
get "????" in all the fields. I have tried changing all my column
headers to English language, but that doesn't help.

Has anyone dealt with this problem before?